Right-wing unions help regime kill motion With the help of right-run unions, the Labour party’s right-wing regime has defeated a motion brought in support of striking workers, fair treatment for working people, support for the poor and vulnerable and to repeal the Tories’ new anti-worker law. The motion read: Strikes (Composited Motion) Leyton & Wanstead, […]
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By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter Attorneys and journalists, who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living under political asylum in the Ecuador embassy, amended their lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for allegedly spying on them. The complaint [PDF] filed in the Southern District of New York now even more explicitly […]
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On Saturday, a small but passionate political protest took place opposite Downing Street, on a topic almost entirely ignored – not to mention actively whitewashed by the UK’s ‘mainstream’ media: the extent of nazi influence in Ukraine. The topic is papered over with equal diligence by what now passes for the ‘Labour party’, which punishes […]
Today’s event in London calling for the release of wrongly-jailed Wikileaks journalist Julian Assange was a well-attended success, featuring journalists Jonathan Cook, Stefania Maurizi and Craig Murray, as well as contributions from others. If you missed it, don’t worry – it can be viewed in full below, from the live-stream to Facebook: The event’s YouTube […]
Update: former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed he will attend this event, shortly after his return from Washington DC for the pro-Assange ‘Belmarsh Tribunal’ event. Skwawkbox will be live-streaming ‘Secret Power, Media Freedom and Democracy’ on Saturday 28 January from 4pm, featuring Craig Murray, Stefania Maurizi, Jonathan Cook and Iain Overton and chaired by […]
FairFuel UK is leading the charge against the Labour mayor's expansion of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone - which will hit the most polluting vehicles including trucks and lorries
Will Labour dare to throw out child Holocaust survivor from Starmer’s own constituency for speaking about his experience? The Socialist Labour Network is holding a Zoom event this Friday to discuss ‘reclaiming the memory’ of all who died in the Holocaust. The event will feature survivors and authors – including a child survivor of the […]
Pekka Kallioniemi assesses the Kremlin's effective use of energy and financial dependency as part of its playbook shaping European politics
A London council has produced an “unprecedented” strategy to reallocate a quarter of kerbside space to sustainable uses, reports Claire Hamlett
Skwawkbox will be in London later this month to livestream ‘#FreeTheTruth: Secret Power, Media Freedom and Democracy‘, an event in support of wrongly-jailed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, featuring leading international journalists. The livestream will run on Skwawkbox and Socialist Telly and will be embedded in the organisers’ pages and feeds. Streaming links will be published […]